The Pencil

Hello friends,

so it has been a while as is the nature of this game. Rather like ordering a pint of Guinness it takes a little patience. but rewarding. well that depends actually, last time you'll remember i was a little more than miffed with the results of my Chevron, so almost in an act of spite and defiance I trimmed it right back, shaving it within an inch of it's life, well within a millimeter of it's length really. However never underestimate your mustache, there I was being all smug thinking I had won a minor victory over the unruly Chevron, Go for a nice short and simple Pencil I thought. Still the tash had it's last laugh as my first attempt left me feeling a little disappointed.

So here we have several pencil designs, I went for the first one, nice simple, tight on top of the lip rather like these distinguished gentlemen. 

                       

I've noticed something about myself, that when it comes to changing my mustache I'm always a little careful. this will explain my first pencil being a little too wide. But i soon got it down to a more suitable size.                        

    as you can see the finer 

lined tash is much better looking than the first attempt. With the second attempt I felt much more chap-ish, if i can invent a word there, in fact it's been this very challenge that has led me to ask such a question, "Am I chap?" now obviously I cant attempt to answer that question my self, but I could take a test, so I have purchased a book which hopefully may just answer that question for me. What is this book i hear you cry, well...                    

I'll come back to this a latter stage.

Now I would just like to say a quick word on tools, for with out proper tools I would not have been able to achieve my second pencil design. The pencil with gap, until this design I have simply been 

my normal safety razor but to achieve the gap I needed to use an old style single blade razor like this.  

so with it being Movember i thought in better publish this and and if you forgive for saying, knock a quick one out for the month of "Mo". 

see you all soon.

  

Hello and welcome back,
Glad to see you're still with me, this blog may not be expertly written, my spelling and grammar may be a little off but hay time is short and life is fun, if you make it so. Now on with the bushy business of facial hair cultivation. This morning I had a horseshoe, (see pic) Now this was suggested to me by my girlfriend,

and i have to say it was a fun style to wear. At first I got a lot of homosexual remarks, like Y.M.C.A, Village people etc, this was of little concern but I thought lets keep count and see if the gay remarks out weighed the straighter, chopper, Holk Hogan type remarks. I'm glad to say the straight far out weighed the gay, and the tash remained. Here are some famous horseshoe wearers.

At first I wasn't sure how thick to set it, but if you're going to do it then go for it I say. Another thing I hadn't counted on was that my tash was to be tri coloured. My top lip is of a slight blonde sandy colour, the rest is more dark brown to black, but now i'm of an age there's a little salt mixed in with the pepper, so the ends had a kind of cool frosting of white. The only thing I missed from having  a beard was having somthing to stroke, altho after a while once it got thicker you could give each end a little fondel he he. 

Any way as fun as the Horseshoe was it's time to move on, so armed with a new book, "The Moustache Grower's Guide" by Lucien Edwards my trusty beard trimmer, comb, nail sissors and razor i set about the move to "The Natural".

 

Now the book say's that this has a diffculty rating of  half a tash, 3 full tashes being the hardest. It can be warn wild and untamed or trimmed neat like a privitt. I've chosen the 'Natural' slightly bushy. I think it will, with a little carefull trimming lend it self as a good base for other styles like the 'Toothbrush', 'The Painters Brush'. or 'Chevron' and 'Walrus'. These will all be presented to you over the next few weeks. So I will leave you here while I go and agonise that my left side is slightly out of kilter with the right, I feel this is going to be an on going problem.

G